Hi John,
The installation guide linked from http://hurd.gnu.org has information
about setting up ethernet.
http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html
After that I recommend you use the APT method in dselect. Use the
following three lines as an /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-libio unstable main
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main
Good luck,
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-- Grant Bowman <grantbow@grantbow.com>
* John Smith <john@arrows.demon.co.uk> [020513 13:14]:
> After several years delay, I have ventured into Hurd country.
>
> Starting with the H2 disks images, I have
> -- cross installed a hurd using a baseHurd.tgz
> -- set up Grub, and rebooted into the Hurd
> -- run initial-install, rebooted, and run initial-install again
> -- copied the hurd-H2-CD1.iso into a hard disk partition, and mounted it
> with a
> settrans /cdrom /hurd/isofs -r /dev/hd0s3
>
> so far all is good. Then I boot up into non-single user mode,
> and start dselect
> Choose Access
> Choose from an already Mounted partition
> then dselect asks:
>
> >> In order to make it easy for me to find the relevant files I'd
> >> ideally like to install from a straightforward copy of the Debian
> >> distribution. To use this I'll need to know where the top level of
> >> that copy of the distribution is (eg. 'debian/dists/stable') - this
> >> directory usually contains the Packages-Master file.
>
> >> If you do not have a straightforward copy of the distribution available
> >> just answer `none' and we'll go through the parts I need individually.
> >> Distribution top level ? [none]
>
> To which I answer
> /cd1-iso/debian/dists/stable
>
> So dselect observes:
>
> >> `/cd1-iso/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-hurd-i386' does not
> >> contain any *.deb packages. Hmmpf.
>
> which is true, but confuses me.
> /cd1-iso/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-hurd-i386 does exist, and includes
> a Packages.gz, which then points to .deb files like
> pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.43_all.deb
> which exist also.
>
> I have played various tunes with answers to the subsequent questions,
> but without success. Ultimately dselect gives me a list of packages to
> choose from, but they are packages installed by the original baseHurd.tgz.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1. Should I be able to use dselect to install compilers and other
> useful things? Have I got a wrong dselect?
>
> 2. Can anyone offer a hint on the next step forward? My hurd is yet to speak
> Ethernet, so cannot yet be pointed directly at Ftp sites.
>
> I admit to being a very new to the whole debian world, though have
> been a modest user of Linux for several years.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> John Smith
> john.smith@arrows.demon.co.uk
>
>
>
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